Charles Coulombe, Author at Catholic Herald

Charles Coulombe

December 19, 2019

Paul Tillich (1886-1965) was born to a minister of the Prussian State Church in what is now Poland. He and his family moved to Berlin when he was young, and he studied successively at the universities of Berlin, Tübingen and Halle-Wittenberg. Receiving his Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Breslau in 1911, Tillich

Heretic of the week: Reinhold Niebuhr

December 12, 2019

Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971) was born in Missouri to an immigrant German couple. His father was a minister in the State Church of Prussia, itself a shotgun marriage between Lutheran and Reformed denominations in that country (in Reinhold’s lifetime, it would merge first with the German Reformed Church in the United States, and finally the Congregationalists,

Heretic of the week: William Booth

December 05, 2019

As Christmas approaches, cities throughout Britain and Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the United States will increasingly see members of the Salvation Army in their distinctive blue uniforms – whether as massed bands in concert halls, or as individuals or couples raising alms through ringing bells. But the Salvation Army is not

Heretic of the week: Neville Goddard

November 28, 2019

Neville Goddard (1905-1972), was born to a white family in St Michael’s, Barbados. Regardless of whether they were wealthy at his birth (accounts differ), his father and brother became so – the Goddard corporation is now a multimillion-dollar enterprise. Neville would later claim that this was because both of them would relax every morning and

Heretic of the week: Conrad Beissel

November 21, 2019

Conrad Beissel (1691-1768) was born in Eberbach, a town deeply divided between Catholics and Calvinists. As one of the latter, he took up the baking trade in Heidelberg. He absorbed radical Pietist ideas there and decided to emigrate to Pennsylvania in 1720. There it was his hope to join a colony on the Wissahickon Creek

Heretic of the week: Valentinus

November 14, 2019

Valentinus (100-160), was born in a small town in northern Egypt, and moved to Alexandria as a child. There he received a Greek education and became a disciple of Theudas, who himself had been a student of St Paul the Apostle. He went to Rome about 136, and became a popular teacher – so much

Heretic of the week: Henry James Prince

November 07, 2019

Henry James Prince (1811-1899) became a doctor in 1832; five years later he gave up medicine due to his own ill health and entered an Anglican seminary in Wales. Ordained in 1846, he was accepted by the Bishop of Bath and Wells in Somerset and appointed curate at a rural church there. His rector

Heretic of the week: Harvey Spencer Lewis

October 31, 2019

When this writer was a boy, such journals as Argosy, Popular Science, and Popular Mechanics were festooned with strange ads for an organisation that claimed to have ancient wisdom to dispense and that boasted such worthies as Benjamin Franklin and Francis Bacon as past members. Both advertisements and the organisation – the Rosicrucians (Ancient Order

Heretic of the week: Peter Deunov

October 24, 2019

Peter Deunov (1864-1944) was born in the village of Nikolaevka to the first Bulgarian Orthodox priest ever to replace Old Church Slavonic with Bulgarian in the Divine Liturgy. Attending an American Methodist school in Varna, he left Orthodoxy for that faith, emigrating to the United States. He graduated from Drew University in New Jersey and

Heretic of the week: William J Seymour

October 17, 2019

William J Seymour (1870-1922) was born in Franklin, Louisiana, to a former slave couple. Although baptised Catholic in his home town’s Assumption Church, as a child he followed his parents out of the faith into the Baptist Church. At the time the federal government’s Freedmen’s Bureau – in addition to teaching the newly emancipated African

Heretic of the week: John Nelson Darby

October 10, 2019

John Nelson Darby (1800-1882) was the most prominent co-founder of the Plymouth Brethren, a group which has numbered many famous names among its membership, including the American humorist Garrison Keillor, who left its ranks early, and Dr John Bodkin Adams, the suspected serial killer, who remained an apparently devout member until his death in 1983.

Heretic of the week: Donatus

October 03, 2019

Donatus (d 355) was Bishop of Casa Nigrae in what is now Algeria in the early years of the 4th century, when the persecution of Christians under Diocletian was at its height. During that horrible time, many Catholics saved their lives by renouncing the faith, burning incense to the gods, or turning over Church property

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